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Gangster | Criminal Mastermind
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The Burbank "mobile home park" seen early in this film was later used as a location for the Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz vehicle The Long, Long Trailer (1954).
When summing up the film in the New York Times, Howard Thompson, the film critic known for his one line reviews, simply stated: "This picture is trash." Joan Crawford told the audience at the Town Hall "Legendary Ladies" show in 1972 that she considered this her worst film.
This is first of two Joan Crawford vehicles in which she plays a woman who undergoes surgery to avoid blindness. In a segment of the 1969 made-for-TV movie pilot of the television series Night Gallery (1969), she played another visually-impaired character who has a risky eye operation.
Warner Bros. studio head Jack Warner Jack L. Warner offered Joan Crawford this role, hoping his expensive star, whose box office appeal was declining, would refuse it, allowing him to put her on suspension. Dennis Morgan, her co-star, was in the same position. They both accepted, much to Warner's surprise. However, after completing this film, Crawford negotiated an end to her contract and would not make another film at the studio until What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962).
When Beth and Ben arrive at the prison for women, she comments on working in a laundry as a trade for the inmates. Joan Crawford herself lived and worked in a laundry as a child. Her daughter Christina Crawford said in an interview that her mother hated that laundry and it was there that Joan developed her loathing for wire-hangers which Christina wrote about in her book "Mommie Dearest."
"Beth Austin: I can answer all your questions, now. Dr. Ben Halleck: You already have. There was only one answer to every question. Yes, I know why you came back, why you didn't stop to count the cost. Beth Austin: But I did count it, I want to pay it. Dr. Ben Halleck: Then remember this, Beth. Remember the day when we took a detour and it led us home? It always will. Beth Austin: I'll remember. And the prison woman who held your hand with all of her strength because she needed your strength. [Camera pans down to see them holding hands]"
"Beth Austin: I suppose it does have its advantages - drifting in the dark; you don't have to face realities."
